Judge, 1906-02-24 · page 12 of 14
Judge — February 24, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's humor. **"The Careless Contributor"** is the main cartoon/article: it's ironic social commentary. An editor lectures a contributor about carelessness—misspelled words, poor punctuation, illegible writing—while the editor himself is hilariously careless: putting a gum-brush in an ink bottle, mislabeling submissions (fashion notes as "agriculture"), and ultimately handing the office boy a love letter instead of editorial copy. The satire targets editorial hypocrisy: editors criticize contributors while being equally sloppy themselves. The remaining items are brief humor snippets (quoted observations about human nature, a joke about summer engagements, etc.) and advertisements for whiskey, Haddon Hall resort, financial advice, and patent medicines—typical of the era. **"Youthful Ingenuity"** shows a boy in a rocking chair, humorously depicted as an labor-saving device innovation, mocking how children adapt to tedious tasks. The satire assumes readers recognize that carelessness was genuinely a publishing problem, making the editor's hypocrisy absurd and funny.
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‘THE CARELESS CONTRIBUTOR. | “ Yes," said the editor, as he put his | | gum-brush into the ink-bottle and tried to | paste on a clipping with his pe the great fault of newspaper con is carelessness. a he dropped the copy he had been writing into the waste-paper basket and marked “editorial” acgoss the corner of a poem entitled * An Ode to Death,” « contribu- tors are terribly careless. You would be surprised,” said he, as he clipped out a column of fashion notes and labeled them | “agriculture,” “to see the slipshod writ- ing that comes into the editorial sanctum. Misspelled, unpunctuated, written on both sides of the sheet, illegible, ungrammat: ical stuff. Contributors are terribly care- | less. They are “. Just then the office-boy came in, in that dictatorial and autocratic manner he has, and demanded more copy, and the editor handed him the love-letter he had just written to his sweetheart, Tid- bits. It’s the proper thing to take Abbott's Angos- tura Bitters with a glass of sherry or soda be- fore meals; gives you an appetite. At all druggists’. QUIT HIS DOLLAR-A-YEAR JOB. Andy Paul resigned as village marshal of Girard last night and will get about six cents for services rendered since the first of the year. His salary was one dollar a year and his bond one thousand dollars. —Cleveland Leader. After a woman succeeds in capturing a husband she doesn't consider marriage the one object in life.— ae — asper’s Hints to HIS GUESS, She—" Why are so many more engage- a ments made in summer than in winter?) Money-makers He— Because a girl is more apt to melt in summer-time, | suppose."— Yon- hers Statesman. — YOUTHFUL INGENUITY. Willie, who is compelled to rock the cradle a great deal, hits on a A free thinker is one who is unable to labor-saving device. dispose of his thoughts for a pecuniary consideration.— Chicago News. — Do you ever make investments in Wall Street ‘securities? Do you ever buy of sell stocks or bonds? If s0, do not fail toread "Jasper’s Hints to Money-makers"" Open all year entrally located every week in * Leslie's Weekly," in which questions regarding stocks and bonds are ba pe noice THE MODERN JUGGERNAUT. market from week to week. This is the tof reliable foancial department publish- a on a | Ceaideaisre oe UDGE has been saving up a lot of automobile smacde of saved them money: pictures and stories for a long time, and these 4 Buy a copy of “*Leslie’s Weekly” 5 . « at your newsdealer’s for fen cents, will be concentrated in our issue dated March tenth. Atlantic City ian see for yoarsel(, crete & A Some of this literature will be likely to sell Cif y three months’ trial subscription to *+Leslie’s Weekly" for $1.00, which Ste " New Jersey cull give you t eto to free are machines, and it will all be liable to add to the ahchs and bonds which you may ask. general gayety of the nations. Addren Judge Company, 225 Fourth @ This will be a good number in which to Avenue, New York. Wnire TOR BooKixr ° advertise automobiles or attachments thereto, or any other article likely to be called for by auto- Leeds & Lippincott mobilists. BLOOD POISON i @ The last forms of this number will close Feb- FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. ruary twenty-fourth. If you are at all interested, pe Re 7, eed Felts Permanently. Cured as you ought to be, please let us hear from you. CATARRH fou can be treated at lrome under same guar- of the anty. Capital $400,000... We solicit t Obavinate cases. Tt you ih Very truly yours, S AN TAL all ‘Throat, Pimples Copper Colored Spots Vices Jupce Company, CAPSULES Sree te aig oF Brees Free 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. COOK REMEDY Co. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIL, U.S. A. comicbooks.com